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M.J. James is the author, coach, and self-publishing strategist. She is passionate about books, Jesus, and helping others live intentionally.

Her work stands out in the world of Christian publishing due to her ability to merge faith, practical business strategies, and intentional. living.

She provides coaching and self-publishing services. In addition, she mentors entrepreneurial-minded mommas to help them live balanced Christ-centered lives while creating their businesses.

M.J. owns and operates multiple businesses while homeschooling her children and immersing them in their own entrepreneurial journeys in the sunny state of Georgia.

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Golden Sunsets in Rosemary Beach (Young at Heart Book 3)

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“So let us then be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing; learn to labor and to wait.”
― Ralph Waldo Emmerson

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“Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

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“I read my eyes out and can't read half enough...the more one reads the more one sees we have to read.”
― John Adams, Letters of John Adams, Addressed to His Wife

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